How the Existence of Earth's Poles Form Ice Age

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Pleistocene Ice Age
Massive interior continental glaciers in the North Pole have developed and retreated many times in the past. There have been six significant glacial periods in history with the late quaternary glaciation occurring 34 million years ago. Holocene is the current interglacial epoch that began at the end of the Pleistocene era (Peltier and Drummond 460).
Many factors have likely lead to the Pleistocene ice age. Several of these issues are associated with climate change, changes in the ocean, and atmospheric circulation. The primary precursor that has caused ice age is a variation of the earth's movements across the continent. The changing positions of the planet affect the ocean and atmospheric circulation patterns. As a result of this movement, the summer temperatures in the North Pole fail to upsurge above the freezing point for an extended period. This implies that the wintertime snow wi...